To wave his hand at a neighbor down the river, Franklin Roosevelt rocked the boat, almost dumped his party in the water.
At a jovial White House press conference he endorsed hen-shaped little Fiorello H. LaGuardia, Republican candidate for a third term as Mayor of New York City.
In doing so, Franklin Roosevelt undercut one of his most loyal friends and party advisers: Boss Edward J. Flynn, Jim Farley's successor as chairman of the Democratic National Committee. It was Boss Flynn who helped pick Brooklyn's District Attorney William O'Dwyer as a likely candidate to run against Mayor LaGuardia (TIME, July 28)....
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